CNS*2026 Halifax

CNS*2026 Halifax

Renato Duarte

Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra

Assistant Researcher

Coimbra, Portugal

https://rcfduarte.github.io/

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8:15am ADT

Registration Ballroom Salon

9:00am ADT

Building mechanistic biophysical models using NEURON and NetPyNE: from molecules to circuit dynamics to LFP/EEG measures Room 501

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

3:00pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Welcome and Announcememts Ballroom B1

5:20pm ADT

Keynote 1: Bratislav Misic Ballroom B1

6:20pm ADT

Welcome Reception TBA

9:00am ADT

Announcements Ballroom B1

9:10am ADT

Keynote 2: Mac Shine, "The Neurobiological Basis of Consciousness" Ballroom B1

10:10am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

10:40am ADT

FO1: The Synapse-Pairing Tradeoff: How Clustering, Bursts, and Dendritic Location Enable Robust Plasticity In-Vivo Ballroom B1

11:10am ADT

O1: Biologically plausible credit assignment via neuronal frequency multiplexing Ballroom B1

11:30am ADT

O2: A unifying account of rTMS and rTFUS neurostimulation effects based on calcium-dependent synaptic plasticity theory and an equivalent-energy principle Ballroom B1

12:10pm ADT

O4: Rewarding Control: Feedback-Phase-Dependent 2Hz Medial Frontal Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Shifts the Expected Value of Control Ballroom B1

2:00pm ADT

FO2: Norepinephrine Restores Cortical Dynamics and Enables Machine Learning–Based Severity Mapping in a Multiscale Model of Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B1

2:30pm ADT

O5: Impact of EAAT2 Dysfunction on AMPA/NMDA-Mediated Excitability in Neuronal Activity Ballroom B1

2:50pm ADT

O6: Multiscale modeling of neural markers for adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B1

3:10pm ADT

O7: Decreased alpha/theta temporal ExSEnt of left prefrontal cortex: a robust biomarker of dementia Ballroom B1

3:30pm ADT

O8: Frequency-dependent modulation of cortical traveling waves during general anesthesia Ballroom B1

3:50pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:20pm ADT

Poster Session 1 Ballroom B2 P002: How Can Spiking Networks Remain Resilient Under Degeneration? Ballroom B2 P003: How long we live? Insights into neural ageing using fractional harmonic oscillator Ballroom B2 P004: Beyond Optimality: Neural Mechanisms of Heuristic Decision-Making Ballroom B2 P005: A Brain-Wide Atlas of Intrinsic Neural Timescales in Mice Ballroom B2 P009: Optimal Self-Organization in Mean-Field Multi-Agent Neuronal Networks Ballroom B2 P011: Dendrites Learn to Detect Input Sequences Through Local Plasticity Ballroom B2 P015: A biologically grounded spiking model of feedback-gated prediction broadcasting in cortical Layer 5 Ballroom B2 P017: Adapting the reconstruction of the cerebellar cortex to the shape of the brain Ballroom B2 P018: Digital Twins in stroke and spreading depression Ballroom B2

9:00am ADT

Announcements Ballroom B1

9:10am ADT

Keynote 3: Blake Richards, "Exponentiated gradients support effective learning in biologically relevant scenarios" Ballroom B1

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

10:40am ADT

FO3: Gene Gradients Reveal Directed Structural Connectivity Across Species Ballroom B1

11:10am ADT

O9: Low-Dimensional Communication Subspaces Reveal Distributed Information Across Neural Areas Ballroom B1

11:30am ADT

O10: A mathematical language for large-scale spike recordings from hundreds to thousands of neurons Ballroom B1

11:50am ADT

O11: SEM to Simulation: Bringing Ultrastructural Detail to Multiscale Modeling Ballroom B1

12:10pm ADT

O12: A new platform technology to explore and leverage the computational properties of biological neural cultures Ballroom B1

2:00pm ADT

FO4: Selective routing of spatial information in dentate granule cells emerges through disparate combinations of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity Ballroom B1

2:30pm ADT

O13: A Developmental Ring Attractor Model for the Head Direction System Ballroom B1

2:50pm ADT

O14: How synchronization, excitability, and variability shape CPG rhythmic bursting sequences across different time scales Ballroom B1

3:10pm ADT

O15: Exact mathematical description of computation with transient spatiotemporal dynamics in recurrent neural networks Ballroom B1

3:30pm ADT

O16: The role of cell types in critical neural activity Ballroom B1

3:50pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:20pm ADT

Poster Session 2 Ballroom B2

7:45pm ADT

Banquet Dinner TBA

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Poster Session 3 Ballroom B2

10:30am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon